Wasteland or waste land may refer to:

  • Desert or barren area
  • an uncultivated area of land, whether wooded or not, whether common land or not

Arts, entertainment, and media

Comics

  • Wasteland (DC Comics), 1987–1989 anthology-style horror/humor comic by John Ostrander and Del Close
  • Wasteland (comics), 2006–2015 comic book series by Antony Johnston and Christopher Mitten
  • Wastelands, setting of Old Man Logan and its several spin-offs, since 2008
  • Marvel's Wastelanders, 2021 ongoing series of radio drama podcasts produced by SiriusXM

Fictional entities

  • Wasteland (Warhammer), a fictional region in the world of Warhammer Fantasy
  • Wasteland, the post-Great War United States in the Fallout series of video games
  • Wasteland, a world in which Epic Mickey and Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two take place

Films

  • Wasteland (1960 film), a 1960 French film directed by Marcel Carné, based on Hal Ellson's novel Tomboy
  • Waste Land (film), a 2010 documentary about Brazilian trash-pickers
  • Wasteland, North American title of the 2012 British film The Rise
  • Wasteland (2013 film), a zombie horror film
  • Mad Max: The Wasteland, a prospective film in the Mad Max franchise
  • The Wasteland (2020 film), an Iranian drama film
  • The Wasteland (2021 film), a Spanish horror drama film

Games

  • Wasteland (video game), a 1988 computer role-playing game
  • Wasteland 2, a 2014 sequel to the above game
  • Wasteland 3, 2020 sequel
  • Wasteland Half-Life, a mod for the 1998 video game Half-Life

Literature

  • Wasteland (mythology), the Celtic motif of the land of the Fisher King
  • Wasteland (novel), a 2003 novel by Francesca Lia Block
  • "Wastelands" (short story), a 2002 short story by Stephen Dedman
  • The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands, a 1991 novel by Stephen King
  • The Waste Land, a 1922 poem by T. S. Eliot
  • Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse, a 2008 anthology of post-apocalyptic fiction

Music

Albums

  • Wasteland (The Jam album), 1992
  • The Waste Lands (album), a 1992 album by Venom
  • Wasteland (Atargatis album), 2006
  • Grace/Wastelands, a 2009 album by Pete Doherty
  • Wastelands (album), a 2013 album by Eskimo Joe
  • Wasteland (Riverside album), 2018
  • Wasteland (Brent Faiyaz album), 2022
  • Wasteland (Wolves at the Gate album), 2025

Songs

  • "Wasteland" (Billy Idol song), 1993
  • "The Wasteland" (Elton John song), 2001
  • "Wasteland" (Poison song), 2002
  • "Wasteland" (Maxïmo Park song), 2005
  • "Wasteland" (10 Years song), 2005
  • "Wasteland" (The View song), 2007
  • "Wasteland" (Needtobreathe song), 2014
  • "Wastelands" (Linkin Park song), 2014
  • "Wastelands" (Suede song), 2018
  • "Wasteland", a song by Against the Current from the album In Our Bones
  • "Wasteland", a song by All That Remains from the album Victim of the New Disease
  • "Wastelands", a song by Amoral from the album Beneath
  • "Wastelands", a song by Avantasia from the album The Wicked Symphony
  • "Wasteland", a song by Bury Tomorrow from the album Will You Haunt Me, with That Same Patience
  • "Wasteland", a song by Chelsea Grin from the album Desolation of Eden
  • "Wastelands", a song by Extol from the album Extol
  • "Wastelands", a song by Hawkwind from the album Alien 4
  • "Wasteland", a song by The Jam from the album Setting Sons
  • "Wasteland", a song by John Cale from the album blackAcetate
  • "Wastelands", a song by Midge Ure from the album The Gift
  • "Wasteland", a song by The Mission from the album God's Own Medicine
  • "Wasteland", a song by Shadows Fall from the album Fire from the Sky
  • "Wasteland (Vechnost)", a song by Silent Planet from the album The Night God Slept
  • "Wasteland", a song by Trapt from the album Only Through the Pain
  • "Wasteland", a song by X Ambassadors from Orion
  • "Wasteland", a song by Royal & the Serpent from the Arcane soundtrack
  • "The Waste Land", a song by Weezer from the album Everything Will Be Alright in the End

Television

  • Wasteland (American TV series), an American television drama, debuted in 1999
  • Wasteland (Czech TV series), a Czech television series
  • Wasteland Speech, a 1961 speech by FCC chairman Newton N. Minow

Other uses

  • Wasteland (event), a bi-annual fetish event held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
  • Wasteland Weekend, an immersive post apocalyptic event held annually in the Mojave Desert since 2010

See also

  • Wastelanding, a 2015 book by Traci Brynne Voyles
  • Waste (disambiguation)